I have lost 6 client already in just 3 months š¢.
Currently I am working on a client's New Tour.
He wants to get leads on Facebook + Instagram.
What content will work best?
Or Who should I follow to content creation and Idea.
Organic Content + Ad Creative (both)
The Audiences USA + Canada. Age limit: 28+
His budget for meta ads is very low.
35$ weekly.
What will work?
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lost 6 clients in 3 months is rough but the budget is the real issue here. $35 a week won't get you far on meta ads targeting US and Canada unless your organic content is pulling serious weight
for south america tours you want stuff that feels spontaneous and real. short clips of street food, colorful markets, sunrise hikes, locals laughing. nothing that looks like a stock photo. reels and carousels with quick cuts and captions that ask a question or tease a story work better than polished ads
for who to follow i'd look at accounts that do offbeat travel storytelling not just pretty drone shots. think creators who show the messy fun parts of traveling not just the landmarks. your client needs to feel like a friend planning your trip not a company selling one
With $35 a week, I'd focus on organic travel reels and test one strong ad with a clear offer. Targeting all of the USA and Canada might be too broad. Is it a budget or luxury tour?
for tour lead ads, show the trip through a person, not a brochure. one guide or past traveler, phone footage, best view in the first 2 seconds, then dates and price on screen. test 3 or 4 hooks on the same footage before making new content. organic can use the same clips, longer, with the story
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So apparently Facebook is testing a limit where some business pages can only make two posts with external links a month unless they subscribe, and I found out because Facebook told me I had already used mine. The only problem was... the post I was trying to make didn't have a link in it. š No URL, no www, nothing clickable. I was just talking about something I had been working on, so at first I figured maybe I screwed something up somewhere and didn't realize it. I went through Meta support and they told me there were no restrictions on my account, but my page was part of this test where non-subscribers can be limited to two posts with links per month. Okay, I think two links a month for a business page is ridiculous, but whatever, at least I understand the rule. You post two links, you hit the limit, Facebook stops the next one. So I tell them again, yeah, but there is no link in this post. That's when they tell me the system can also flag what they called "link-like content," even if there isn't an actual URL. They mentioned things like saying website, using .com, or wording that sounds like you're telling somebody to visit a site. And I'm sitting there thinking... this is a business page. š Of course I'm eventually going to say the word website. That's kind of one of the things businesses have. So I asked how I was supposed to fix it and they basically told me they couldn't remove the limit, couldn't reset it, and I would have to wait until the beginning of the next month. And to top it off, Facebook had already shown me a popup promoting Meta One so I could keep sharing links, and support told me subscribing may help avoid those non-subscriber posting limits. That's the part that really rubbed me the wrong way. I don't have a problem with companies charging for premium stuff. Give me better analytics, scheduling, AI tools, better support, whatever, and if it's worth paying for then fine. But if you're going to limit something as basic as a business sharing links and then charge for more access to it, I feel like the system should at least be able to tell when somebody actually posted a damn link. Because my whole conversation basically turned into: Facebook: You used your two link posts. Me: This post doesn't have a link. Facebook: Yeah, but it looks like it might. Me: Okay... can you fix that? Facebook: No. Me: So what am I supposed to do? Facebook: Have you considered paying us? š I'm attaching the screenshots because I know how ridiculous this sounds without receipts. Has anybody else managing a Facebook page run into this yet? I'm especially curious about the false positive part, where a normal post with no actual URL gets counted as a link post anyway.
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